Análisis mixto sobre la docencia del metabolismo celularel proyecto aquaroca

Resum

The research that is presented “Mixed analysis on the teaching of cellular metabolism; The AQUAROCA project” is based on the following foundations: the difficulty involved in teaching metabolism in high school, its importance for understanding the vital processes of all living beings, and the search and application of an educational project, which can be used in our classrooms to improve the learning process of students. The main object of the research is the comparative study between a traditional methodology and an active methodology, the Aquaroca project, based on processes related to aquaponics, and therefore on the construction and maintenance of small ecosystems made up of different organisms with different metabolisms. The initial working hypothesis is that, starting from the same theoretical base and exposed by the same teacher, Aquaroca offers more effective and significant learning for the understanding of the concepts related to metabolism than a traditional methodology. A research methodology based on a quasi-experimental and at the same time cross-sectional design has been used, as it is considered the most suitable in the treatment of the data that were analyzed through a "mixed methodology" (qual-quantitative) to obtain a better and more substantive vision of reality. The results of the research have confirmed the main hypothesis raised, that is, that the students of the Aquaroca group present more significant learning than that of the Control group, but it also shows the great importance that the teacher acquires in the Teaching-Learning process. They are generating a greater influence in the elaboration of their cognitive structures.